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LITERARY NEWS
iKaTti)
CRITIC1SM
George Meredith Portrayed in
His Own Letters.
LETTER8 OF GEORGE MEREDITH
Collected and Edlted by Hls Son. In
Two Volumes. Vol. I. lfttt-lWl. Vol II
1882-1909. UluBtrated. 8vo. pp. vi. 338,
334. Charlea Scrlbner. Sons.
Theae lattars wlll count heavily in
the development of that personal and
affoctionate sympathy amongst read?
er* whlch means more, perhaps, to
the fama of a noveliat than to that
of any other llterary type. Readlng
them one recalls the old aaying of
Emerson, that at short range the
sensea are lrreaiatible. In hls lettera
w_ fairly aee and hear George Mere
9--?-?
decorated wlth soot. Behlnd lt llea her
free youth. She looks dark y forward on
the children of Egypt. Ita Janet __n
CH.^,o-,dy-U totlt Do write down half
a page of your sensation*. and hand them
to me. urider seal, wlth directlon* hat
I may rend them a year hence and com
pare wlth results. Not that J ou re o
rnantlc. and I don't suppose you Butter
vastly Juat when you're caught. hut Btiij.
dear Orange Blossom, you re a blt or a
bird, like the rest. .
Dv the way, why am I to have tne
nhoto of Janet as wife, whlle Arthur takes
the malden?
It is not, we freely grant, in any way
a remarkable letter. The revlewer,
! armed wlth scissors and paste pot and
I hunting for "plums." might easily pass
jit by. But even standlng by Jtself lt
preservea a certain dellcate vitallty,
land, what Ib more, to pass from this
GEORGE LUSJIEDITH AT THE AGE OF KOHTY.
.irom a portrait ln "Letters of George Meredith.''
dith, coming to know him almo6t, lt
VOUld seem. fll his friends knew him
ii. UM _)?**-, and in a curioosly Ul*
tiinate and movlng way lie takes us
Oflptlva Hll son notes that these
?flUVflalrf do r.ot make a completo
. r.llection. and that they are not ln?
tended to form a narrative of his lif *.
lt does not matter. The main point
la that the man ls put before us. wiih
much th-t throws light on the author,
and, moreover, we are not sure that
the world needs any more exhaustive
biography of Meredith than the noml
nally superficlal one here provldel
Whb carea to __0*ff where U? lived in
a given month, what the state of his
finances was at that time, whether
he suffered from headaches or rheuma
tlsm, and what he preferred to have
for dinner. when all the time he ia
ahowing us the tralts of character
governing the progress of his whole
career?
It waa the career of a man born
to look on at life and to dramatlze
what he aaw. Almost we had sald that
it was the career of a man destined to
turn the fr.iits of observation Into
works of art; but Just aa fhe novcls.
Btreaked with genius as they are, fall
ahort of fulfilling the laws of art. so
the letters diacloae the connoisseur ot
emotion rather than the pure artist.
In thls faet, by the way, resides thei*
chiefeat charm. Ther* ls nothing
?literary" about them. Never for au
Inatant doea the reader feel, aa he ao
often feolB in atudylng tha correspon
dence of Stevenaon, for example, that
the wrlter's confidances to hia frlenda
were ao framed, whether consciouaiy
or unconsciously, aa to make good
"copy." Meredith, we fancy, would
slmply not have known how to write
a private letter with a vlew to its
futura publlcation. Talking on paper
ha was apontaneity itaelf. The lm
medlate lmpresslon of hls epUtolary
?tyle is one of a light, witt> and some
time* deliberate'.y entertalning touch.
It 1* obvlou* that he wa* ready ti
take pains to give pleaaure to those
he loved. But on reflection the reader
la atruck by the absence of anything
.ver ?motely raaembling a forced
note Vredith a>'Jid be playfuily in
genlou.. but it was not ln him to be
c.*ver; he waa too big a man for that.
Character and mind, as they come out
in th* lettera. are eaaantially maseullne.
vigorous and direct. It ia a allgbt but
interestlng polnt to note here that,
whlle hia dlction is BOtnetlmes that of
the novel*, it is generally free from
obacurity and freakiahneaa. He lets
hlmaelf go ln easy. natural faahion.
Feeling, plala human feeling, urges
hia pan. and he haa no time for the
polUhing of a period. Endearlng. too.
ln a very almplfl way. la the quality of
hla emotion. Early ln thia book we
come upon hia friendahlp with Mlea
Janet Duff Oordon. and we are allowed
to look over hla ahoulder when her
marrlage atlra hlm to worda manly and
affectlonata, beneath whlch one dlvlnes
a llttle honeat soreness of heart "God
bleaa you, my dear glrl!" he exclaima.
"If you don't make a good wlfe. 1've
naver raad the pflge of womfln." His
frlenda huaband waa Henry James
Boaa, a colleague of "Ninaveh" Lay
ard'a ln the famoua excavatlone, and
from Egypt ahe aent blm her portralt.
Thua he acknowledges the gift:
My Dear Janet?A thousand thank* for
the photo; lt lt a good and flttlng present
gt thi* awful ln*tar.t. It admlrablv reprc
senta the occaelon. Looklng on lt, I *ee
the corpae of th* Maiden Janet. Just
what alu- may henceforth give of har*elf,
and no more. It lan't bad,Ita pleaaant to
have, but it'B Janet waahed out and
letter to scores of others like lt ls pres
' ently to acquire a full and enrichlng
I sense of u greatly lovlng and grcatly
1 lovable heart. It ls, we believe. in
i their revelation of Meredlth's profound
j tenderm.ss that the letters will do most
' to enlarge hls circle. There wasnoth
I ing of the mere sentimentallst about
jhlm. That thrre was hard metal in
; him is dear from hls son's brlef note
I on his separation from his rtrst wife:
"Two hlghly strung temperaments?
man and wife?each imaglnatlve, emo
lional. qulck to anger, cuttlngly Batlrl
I cal in dispute. each an lneomparable
! wielder of the rapler of rldlcule, could
' not flnd domeatic content within the
narrow boqndf of poverty and lodg
, lngs." But thls lncrcases Instead of
j dimlniehlng our belief in hls capaclty
for passlon, hls warm slncerlty, hls
j qulckness in feeling his way to the
I root of things. It ls good to follow hlm
\ ln hls fi.mily life, to observe the heartl
i ness of the parental lnstlnct ln hlm,
iand it ls good to be wlth hlm ln hls
{deallngs with his friends. For infec
tious hlgh spirlts lt would be hard to
i beat hls letters to Wllllam Hardman,
I letters fairly boyish In thelr fun. And
through lt all the reader ls every now
and then catchlng gllmpseB of the nov
ellst exercislng his functlon.
There ls an eirly hlnt ln one of hls
letters to Mrs. Ross of the orlglns of
hls work. Wrltlng to her of a book ha
has ln hand, he says: "I gave you
once, Bltting on the mound over Copa
ham. an outllne of the real atory H ls
taken from. Of course, one does not
follow out real stories; and thls has
simply suggested Emilla to me." He
used the suggestion according to hls
own genius, but the suggestion was
pretty nearly lndispensable. To Dr.
Jessop he writes of hls poems, and
says:
One result of my hard educatlon
has been that I rarely write save from
the suggeatlon of somethlng actually ob
aerved. I n.ean. that I rarely write verse.
Thua niy Jugglera, Beggarn, etc, I havo
met on the road, and have ldeallied hut
sllghtly. I desire to strike tho poetic
apark out of abaolute human clay. And
ln dolng ao I have the fancy that I do
solld work?better than a carol ln mldalr.
The letters, lf not preclsely full of
life, are full of his lnstlnct for lt, whtcn
spurs hlm ln hls rhapsodles on nat
ure, cropa out in his few references to
rellgtous matters, glves a klnd of tang
to all hla excursions among every
day human relatlons. and coramunl
cates a throbhlng cnergy to his not ln
frequent critlcism, Hls criticlam, we
may add, ls all compact of hla candor
and his gusto for m?n and women as
they are. There are many instanees
whlch lt would he lntereatlng to clte.
But we muat be content with thls
letter to his frlend Maxae, on Tenny
i aon:
The "Holy Orall" la wonderful. isn't lt?
The lines are satin lengths. the flgures
Sevrea china. I have not the courage to
offer, to review lt, I should say auch
things. To thlnk!?It'a ln theae daya that
the foremost poet of the country goes on
flutlng of creaturea that have not a
breatn of vltal humantty ln them, and
doles us out hla regular flve-feet wlth the
old trlck of the vowel endlngs?The
Euphulst'a tongue, the Exquislte's leg, the
Curate's moral sentlments, the Brttlsh
matron and her daughter's purlty of tone:
?so hc talks, so he walks, so he snufllei,
so he appeara divtne. I repeat wlth my
Grannam,?to thlnk I?and to hear the
chorus of pralse, too! Why, thla stuff ls
not the Muae, It'a Musery. The man has
got hold of the Muses' clothes-line and
hung lt wlth Jewelry.
But the "LucretlUB" ts grand. I can't
say how much I admlre It and hate the
Blr l'andarus public whlch has corrupted
thls flne (natural) slnger. In hls de
frraded state I really believe he is useful
for he reflects as much as our Soclety
chooaes to show of ltaelf. The Engllah
notlon of passlon, vlrtuc. valour. ls ln
hls pages, and the air and the dress we
aaaume are seen there. I turn to Rabelale
and Montalgne wlth rellef. See what a
gentleman Bocc-acclo la ln hls nairatton,
and always msnly. always freah. Do >ou
care to flnd the Holy Gratl Fred? TwentJ
yesra ago it would have exclted me. Tms
your foremost Poet la twenty years be?
hlnd hla tlme. Of courae I expect a con
trsry oplnion from you. But answer me?
len't there a scent of damned hypocrlsy
ln all thls llaplng and vowelled purjty pr
the Idylls? Well! Just as you like lt
It'a fashlonable. it pleases the roae-p nK
ladles, lt aells. Enough. I am your lovlng
QEOROE M.
Meredlth, ln those days, did not sell.
"But a man must work by the llght of
hls consclence lf he ls to do anythlng
worth readlng," he says, and the very
letters which make us wlnce through
thelr dlsclosures of hls hardshlps are
restoring in what they tell ua of hlB
rectitude and courage. These letters
will never be classlcal. They want the
absolutely original fragrance, the rare
fellclty, of Lamb, of FltzGerald. But
they will be read.
THE CHILD
A Plea for Better Regulation of
Street Labor.
CHILD LABOR IX CITY STREETS. By
Edward N. Clopper, Ph. D.. Seeretary
of National Chlld Labor Commlttee
for Mlsalsalppl Valley. 16nio, pp. Ix.
280. The Macmlllan Company.
Mr. Clopper's purpose is plalnly
stated ln the early pages of hls llttle
book, where he polnts to the anomaly
of our chlld labor lawa, whlch prohibit
a chlld'e employment before the age of
fourteen ln factnrleB and shops, but
leave lt free to follow at any age, and on
its own account, certaln occupations,
such ae peddllng. the dellvery and sell?
ing of newspapers, boot Macklng and
the llke. Boot blacklng haa been or
gsnlzed by Oreek padronl, and offers no
particular dlfficultleB to the enforce
ment of child labor laws, but the other
occupations threaten many obvlous
dangers to the phyBlcal and moral
health ol the youngsters. Some of
these trades are lntermittent. hours of
ldleneas alternatlng wlth Bpells of ln
tense activity, others stlll are most
profltable at certaln hours of the nlght.
Thls nlght work leads the author to In?
clude ln hls plea the case of the mes
senger boy, to whlch attention has |
been called ere now, its dangers are so
many and so obvlous.
It is not regulation. but prohlbltion,
that will cure the resultant evlls. Mr. j
Otappcr holds. Hla survey include?
londltlons and laws ln England and
Oermany aa well as in thls country,
and it ls from England that he draws
the suggestion that the street trades
n-pw ln the hands of children in the
l'nlted States could well be handed
over to adults beyond the age of thelr
full economlc uaefulneas, to cripples,
the tuberculous and those otherwise tn
capacltnted for work.
From the chapter on the relatlon of
thls uncontrolled chlld labor to delin- I
quency one learns that most Juvenile |
offenees are committed by working
children. -Stlll, it muat be remembered
that "a partlal explanutlon of the num?
ber of deilnquents is unquestlonably tn
the klnds of children who enter these
occupations. It ls a case of action and
reaction." There la a good blbllog
raphy.
C0NG0 TRIBES
Travel and Studies of Native
Ways and Ouatoras.
LAND ANL) PEOI'LES OF THE KAI
SAI Helng a Narratlve of a Two
Years' Journey Among the Cannlbala
of the Equatorial Foreat and Oth< r
Savage Trlbts of the 8outhweatern
4'onso Hy lf. W. Hllton-Blmpaon.
F. R. o. 8, F'. R. a. I. With numer
oua illuatratlon*. and elght full-pag-*
color i>lates and a m<-*|> tro, pp xx
266. Chlcago: A. C. McClurg _? Co.
THE KETISH KOLK CF WEBT AF
RK'A. By Robert H. Mllllgan. IHua?
trated. 8vo. pp 328. The Flemlng H.
Revell Company.
Mr. filmpson Jolned forces wlth the
Hungarian traveller Emll Torday ln i
voyage of exploratlon to thi? Kasai and
Sankuru baalns of the Congo State, a
terrltory partly untrodden by the
white man till then, and lnhaoited by
Moreover, they had with them several
terrlfylng fetiches, moet potent af them
all a mechanical toy elephant, which
walked and Bwung ita trunk in the
myeteriouB Bemi-dark of thelr tent.
What appeara to hava lmpressed Mr.
Slmpson aa much aa the dangers of hla
trlp was h|s first slght of alblno ne?
groes:
One. a small boy with a deathly whlte
skln and white woolly hair, was not ao
ugly aa a grown-up man, whose face
seemed to posseBa every characteristic
whlch exlat* ln the negro countenance.
horrlbly accentuated by the pallor of
his complexion. His face was almost
inhuman and, once seen, is likely never
to be forgotten.
Mr. Mllllgan'fl book is a delight. A
mlssionary, he lived for seven years
among the trlbes of the Congo reglon.
and learned to like them and to under
stand them. This is, indeed, a. study
of negro psychology, a search for the
man beneath the skin. In hls earlier
book. "The Jungle Folk of Africa"?a
book eminently well worth ivading?
Mr. Milllgan dealt with the Afrlcan ln
relation to hls surroundlnga; here he
deals wlth the native's interior world
with hls mental habits and beliefs:
In Africa everybody has a tarnhelm
Second-hand tamhelms are for sale evt-ry
wfiore. 1 myself had a ran- 00*. but I
have lost It or mislald lt. To us. who
thlnk of nature a* the realm of law, or?
der and unlformlty. the world of the
Afrlcan eeern:- to have gone mad. This
msdness ls. however. more apparent than
real. Tho Afrlcan thinks ln terms of the
mlraculous. . . . If we should not find
the fahled thread out of thls amaring
labyrlnth of fetlchlem. it may be possible
to find a thread into it: and ncrt only pos
*lble. but also worth whlle, lf within the
lahyrlnth we shall find the Afrlcan htm
s.-lf, and come to know him, mlnd and
heart. a llttle better.
It is wlthln the labyrlnth, then, that
the author takea us to look out upon,
and Into and around the Afrlcan na?
tive. Much he tells ua and much he
makes us see and understand. Hls
chapter on Afrlcan muslc. too. ls de
cldedly worth while, and he talks of
other thlnga African no less entertaln
Ingly?of lnsect pests, for Instance, and
of the "coastere," the whlte traders
whose favorlte topics of conversatlon
are the deadMness of the cllmate and
the iniquities of the mlssionary. And
he has a dellclously qulet sense of hu
mor.
FEUDAL DAYS
Studies of the Social State in
Mediseval France.
BQCtAL ____*__ AT THE TIME OF
PHIUPPE AVOUSTV.. Bf Achlll."
I/ichalre. Membre de l'lnstit-t. Au
tharl_ed translatlon from th* *econd
edltlon ct the French by Edward Ben
iamln Krehblrl. Ph. D . professor or
European hlstory, l_land fttanford
Junior Vnlverslty. 8vo, pp. vlil, 441.
Henry Holt Company.
Thls study tt the economlc and,
above all else, the sorlal Ilfe of France
at the end of the twelfth and ln the be
glnnlng of the thlrteenth century waa
left uncompleted by the death of its
author, ln the sense that It IflCkfl chap
ters on certnln phasea of Its subject,
notably one on PliUlpp* II hlm.eif, who
was an large and purposeful n factor ln
the ahaplng ot these condltlons, then in
a state of transltlon, espeeially so far
as the status of the French burgher
waa concerned. Stlll. wlthln Its ecope.
the book la complete, and more than
romplet*. since certaln repetltion.i?re?
turn* to the same subjects from dlf?
ferent social level*?were left unre
vlaed, to the greater lnformation, be lt
added, of the student. It was a period
of chaos, aa all perlods of transforma
tlon are, an.l thls occaslonal redun
dar.cy adds, If anything, tfl the reader's
reallzatlon of the complc-xlty of tho
tlmes. M. Luchalre was flf the num?
ber of those hlstorlan* who make the
documentary evidenco ut thflf. com?
mand yleld Ita uttnost by questlonlng
lt, duubtlng lt and testing it ln a hun?
dred srholarly anrl lngenlous __**_, He
had, moreover, the knack of accuratc
and Ulumlnatlng nimmlng up, once he
hnd reached a concluslon.
Of his thlrteen chaptcrs, the ilrst is
GEOKGE MEUEDITll AT THE AGE OF THREE.
(From a portrait tn ''Lettera of George Meredlth.")
some of the most backward and savage
trlbes of Africa. The ethnographlo re
sulta of the expedltlon were published
some tlme ago by Mr. Torday; Mr.
Slmpson's book ls a narratlve pure and
slmple of thelr Journey, Its lncidents
and its many and varying interests.
Books of Afrlcan travel have beeome
aomewhat of a drug on the market for
the moment, but this ona, of a trip
taken for pleasure and ln the vacation
spirit of appreclation of things and
piioplea new and strange and prlmltlve,
U readable throughout. "Ex Africa
semper allquld novl!"
The two explorers, who were Jolned
for a whiie by a third traveller. fared
well with the savages?aven wlth the
cannlbals. thanks lafgely to Mr. Tor
day's knowledge of the African natlve
acqulred on an earller expedltion.
devoted to a general aurvey of tlie ma
terlal and aplritual condltlon of the
people. Starvatlon waa a constantly
recurrlng "natural" cause of death.
and not among the lowly and
poor alone. Religion was rellc wur
shlp. Dlvlne interventlon ln tbe af?
faira of men waa belleved to be ob
talnable only through these reputed
remalns of saints, ln war and peBtl
lence. ln drouth and fiood. in shkness
and health, ln the enterprlses of the
noble and the venturea of tho mer?
chant. Public calamltles were com
bated wlth proceaBlons ln whlch these
relica were carrled about wlth pomp
and circumstance; rellef from prlvate
grtefB and wronga and affllctlonB was
Bought in pllgrimages to their shrlnes.
Wlth the demand the supply of relica
increased amazlngly. Tbe hlgh dlgnl
BOOKS AND PUBLJCAT10N8.
B00K8 AND I^JLICATWIS^
An Enchantiwg Novel of
HawaH
A Jewel of
the Seas
By Jessie Kaufman
Thls dellghtful
novel la a perfect
picture of Ha
waiian aociai llfa
When Commo
dore and Mra
Cbandler arrlve
at Honoiulu on
thelr yacht,
Qelda, tbay ara
entarta-n-sd lav
tsblf and arouae
not a Uttle o.rl
oslty among the
nattvea. At oa*
of the natlve
fetea whlch ls
given in their
honor a famous
jewel dlsappears.
Thereupon follow
a number of
other ourioua tn
c I d e n t s. AJto
gether thls ts one
of the brightest
atorleB of modern
Hawall.
l.mo. lltuetroted, Cloth, %\M aet.
Pottpoid, 11.ST.
A rVHlRLWim SUCCESS
- Me-6mhh," tha Wg Weatern itorrt ot M, ran
intetttveu larga eiiltl*__*. 'The La-*-* Uo.' win
be nrtn more iwj:*uiar Thare la iba bura-waiwt ??
liteiMiit ot brett* Wcstani I'le; and ihe Hroiig
pareonamvef 4lie Lady Dec domlaateaarery scene
uul.ltii.ait clljnex.
_U?.*-.U4. cieU. tu.lltuv toetptU, tAM.
J. B. Lippincott Company pSKL
tarles of the Church sought to combat
the increasing credullty of the people.
Pope Innocent III warned the French
clergy to accept only objecta of indls
putable authenticity, but "these doubts
and prudent precautions were ill re?
ceived by the masses, and those prel
stes who even dared to express thelr
Bkepticlsm ran great rlsks. They were
regarded as evl! characters and ene
mles of the peopie."
I'i \.- chaptf-rs are devoted to the
medineval clergy, perhaps the most
helpful belng that on the lower clergy.
whose acandals of life and behavior
Bf. favorito subjecta of the chronlcles
and thr, popular ltterature of the pe?
riod From the learned higher eccle
iia*tlcal dlgnltarles to the University
of Paris 1* a logical transltlon. An
equal number of chaptera deala wlth
the noblllty. their atandarda and daily
life. thelr finances, enmltles, quarrels
and pastimes. And the noble lady haa
a chapter of her own. The book closes
wlth a chapter on the peasantry, the
ultimate vlctlms of feudallsm, the "ul?
timate consumer*" of all Its wrongs
and inJUBtico, and on the burghers, who
were Just beglnning to 11ft thelr heads
ln naseent confldence. A wealth of
informatlon ls packed into theae pages.
It shapea itself easlly ln the reader'a
mlnd into a coherent picture of aound
relatlve valuea and clear perBpectlv*.
a ?
REMINISCENCES
Oossip and Personalities of the
Last Century.
IN TIU: OOt-RTS OF MEMORY. 1868-'-.
From ('ontemporary Letter*. By L
il.- IlegermBnti-Lindencrone Illus?
trated wlth portralt*. facsimiles, etc
8vo. pp. vill. 4*). Harper _ Uros.
The author of these remlnlscences
was formerly Mlss Lillle Greenough. of
t'ambrldge, Mass., where she was edu
rated. Longfellow lnstructlng her ln
English literature. Po*sessed of a
lovely volce, she was taken to London
at the age of fifteen by her mother and
placed under tho tultlon of Garcla, who
told the rather complacent llttle song
Rtress that she "had not the remotest
Idea how to slng," orderod _ complete
rest for slx months, and then conscnted
lo take her. Two years later she mar?
rled Mr. Charles Moulton, the son of an
American bnnker who had reslded ln
Paris slncc the days of Louls Philippe.
The young wlfe soon found her way to
the court of Napoleon and Eugenle, and
waa a member of the court clrcle dur?
ing the last nine years of thelr relgn.
She met all the celebrltlea of the period
and plaea witnessed the fall of the Em?
pire and the daya of tbe Commune, re?
turned to America ln the early 70'a,
and there marrled her second husband,
who was then Danish Minister at
Washington and is to-day hls coun?
try. representatlve at Berlin. The
book ends wlth tho year 1875 and its
mtlior's vislts to Austria and Germany.
These rcminiscenoes were written
ourrentd calamo as letters home, and
appear to have been printed very much
as they were written. Mme. Llnden
irono offers us no detalled character
Btudles, nor does she add to the sum
total of our knowledge of hlstory, but
uhe more than componsates for thls *****
her entertalnlng descrlptlona of every
Jay happenings at court, of balls and
receptlons, wlth amtislns; remarks on
tho people she met there?the Prln
rcsses Mathilde and Clotllde, Plon
Plon, Morny, Persigny, the Metternichs,
Mme. de Gallifet, the famous Countess
rastlgllone, and. far more lnterestlng
itlli, tha great mualcians of the day,
H"S8lnl and hla eccentrlcitiefl, Auber,
th* young Massenet, l_szt, Wagner,
lenny Llnd and many others. Her
?tore of anecdotes aeems to ba lnex
tiaustible.
Kosslni wore a wig; when it was cold
tte wore two. and when it was very cold
tte added a thlrd one. He told people
thut they were not obllged to slng hls
awn compositions when aaked to slng
it hls house. "I prefer 'Au Clalr de la
Lune.' even wlth variatlons," he added.
When Baron James de Rothschild aent
hlm a baaket of grapes from his hot
houses he expresBed hls thanks, but
added that ha dld not like to "take hls
wlne in capsules," whereupon the
banker sent hlm a caae of his famoua
-hateau-Lantte. Of Auber the ltallan
'aid that he was a great muslclan, who
wrote "de la petite mualque." When
\uber asked hlm what he thought of
TannhilusBr" Rosslnl answered: "It Is
nuslc that one must hear several tlmes.
I shall not go again." He also held
^hat Wagner would klll bcl canto, but
?raised hia lnstrumentation enthual
tstlcally. Auber waa very witty; he
tlao was a punster.4 Wagner gave him
self insufferable airs when ln Paris,
disapproving of everything at the op?
era. As for Jenny Llnd:
She hated Verdl and all he had made;
she hated Rosslnl and all he had made;
she hated the Freneh; she hated the
Amerlcans; ahe abhorred the v*erv^ name
of Barnum, who, she sald, **exhlblted me
Just aa he did the big glant or any other
of hla mon?trosltle8."
??But." said I, "you muat not forget how
you were ldolized and appreciated ln
America Even as a child I reraember
how they worshlpped Jenny Llnd.'
"Worahlpped or not.*' she answere
eharplv, "I was nothlng more thap a
show ln a showman'a hands; I can never
forget that."
Stlll, tha two ladies got along very
well. They compared trllls and vocal
lzes. and the Nlghtlngale agreed to
visit Mrs. Moulton ln Paris.
The author was presented to Napo
leon whlle skatlng. His majesty skated
MME DE HBGERMANN-LINDEN
<CRONE.
(From a portrait in "In the Courts of
Memory")
very badly, dragging hls left foot. And
he wore a silk hat, whlch fell off. rather
spolllng the dlgnity of the moment.
Mra. Moulton did not llke him. though
she honors hls amlablllty. The Ern
press captlvated her with her beauty,
grace and charm. Sne quotes another
instance of Morny's cynicsl frankness
concerning hls own illegltlmacy. his
wlfe's and hls imperial brother's. The
Metternichs flutter through the de
sorlptlons of f-Stes, theatrlcals, charades
and the llke, according to thelr now
tradltlonal manner. In these days of
the burden of tipptng lt ls curious to
know that the pourbolres at an imperial
house party at Comple-gne wera fixed
by the majordomo, who vialted ths
guests in thelr rooma on the morning
of thelr departure and collected the
sums aBsessed. The tariff waa as fol?
lows: Ambassadorfl, 2,000 franos; mln
lsters of state, 1,000 franct; unofflclal
guests, <_<X) franca; minor nobles, 500
francs.
Mme. Ltndencrone prints facsimiles
of the answers given to her questions
ln the once popular game of "pref
erences." Napoleon's favorite vlrtue
wss "gratltude," and he would havo
llked to be hla own grandaon. The Em
prees's favorite occupatlon waa "dolng
good." Prince Mctternlch'a answers
are strlklng. To the question. "What
hlstorlcal personage do you dlsllke
most?" he answered, "Pllate waahlng
his hands." He declared himself tol
erant of all shortcomlngs that were the
results of a bad educatlon. Of course,
Alfred de Mussefs favored author was
himself.
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Southeastern Europa. he intlmates f*f
more declslveiy, the ultimate victtm t*
most Ukeiy to be found to be a woman.
and Biclly to be her habitat. Aa lor
the American negro. he ls better ntl
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the agricultural dlatrlcta at least, "f
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Wlth the queation of poaalble *_?*
tlnctions between mare backwartbeaf
and raclal infertority tha author ital
not concern hlmself, nor does _?*___**
tha European dleinhartted from tl*-*
wretchedneaa ln the Old World Abrotp*,
tha stagea of thelr pragreM la -*"
New. Ha helda, however, that a_tB***fa_
to aubatltuta South*_urt*T_ _H_*W*a>
peaaant labor for that of tha _??"**" f*1
our South would create a rarlal I******
iem more dlfflcult and dangjarom _?*<
that caused by the praaeno* thire ot'
hls own race. "Whatever eiae ona IM
say of the negro, he la ln eraryUl"
except hla color, more like tha Soutbara,
whlte man, more wlDing and abl* *?>
absorb the 'deas and tha culture of Mt
white man and adapt -hlmeelf to *_*"*?
Ing conditlon* than ls**tr_e of any **?**
whlch la now comlng*/ Into thia cotm*
try."
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dently drawn v?atuable sugg***-*"*"
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vital problem to which he haa devotad
hls life. He al*vays wrltes w*U xxti
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